Ask any questions about sound proofing, acoustical treatments, etc. I get accused of obsessive research into this stuff, so I have a lot of (useless according to my wife) knowledge on stuff. I am all about learning and sharing and trying to save a buck when ever possible if possible.

And installed (obviously the screen, top black, and bottom black panels are removed).

I am thinking that I need to put some sort of "stand" under each sub actually. The 2x4 framing is blocking some of the free flow space for the LFE. Either that, or I would need to swap spots with the M60s, but I am afraid that the front sound field might not be "wide" enough.

So I will mess with that tomorrow as I didn't get to calibrate it at all tonight. I was helping a coworker who needed to quickly add and change some things in his home theater before the inspector comes tomorrow, and then the theater got overrun by my wife and two daughters who are watching some chick flick.

So calibration will be tomorrow. I can say this though, I did some A/B tests with a few music clips and a LFE demo blu-ray from AVS and I really couldn't tell the difference between the SVS 20-39PCi and my build. I am sure with a meter and some time I could, but I am really happy with that aspect.

Prepping for acoustical panels, so my daughter and I did the "mirror test" to try to find first reflection points for each of the seats. After a few seats, we noticed that to cover them all we would need to treat about the first 15 feet of the room on each side. Ugh. There has to be a better way. If I was just doing a single seat or two MAYBE this would work out, but with 8 seats, that is 24 locations on each wall (behind the speakers is already covered, and the back wall will be taken care of too. Nothing on the ceiling at this point.)

Here is a picture part way through the process of the tap markings. The black panel on the floor is for the front false wall. It goes under the screen.